Oh shit sorry I didn’t realize you can’t see it without logging in.
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I think you used to be able to
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He’s going to have a long time to work on his meditation. Assuming they don’t give him the chair.
When the police have to make a statement saying “he’s not a hero” you know it’s struck a nerve. Though i bet the big fat Michael Fabricants at the top would rather buy beefy security than change anything
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Cheers Elon!
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Twitter is well shit without an account now.
Deleted my account a month or so ago and now links to anything on Twitter or checking out accounts is pointless.
Somewhat feel like it should be a bigger deal that Syria has overthrown their dictator and in the midst of all that Israel has come ploughing in, destroyed their navy and grabbed a ton of land. Are world leaders not making a big deal out of it because it’s just par the course for them now or what?
Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty."
Nah, mate! You’re just the latest in a very long line of nutters who think they’re so morally superior that it’s ok for them to kill people. They all have rambling, self-justifying ‘manifestos’ too. Anders Breivik was one. Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, was another. As, in his own way, was Osama bin Laden.
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The whole world is talking about how fucked US health insurance is now though, so job done. Comparing this guy to a white supremacist, or to terrorists, is a bit of a stretch.
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“I’ll keep this short”.
i genuinely can’t remember the last thing that united the US left and ring wing quite as much as “the CEO had it coming”. regardless of my personal thoughts on the murder, it’s clear that their system fails the majority of the country, catering to a wealthy minority.
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I think you could justify describing him as a terrorist. He’s just one of the good ones like Guy Fawkes.
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I’m fully behind this guy right until he took a life. What needs to happen for people to take notice though?
Absolutely. When you see the individual stories about how people were let down and left to die by this firm, it’s hard not to think that the boss of it might actually have had it coming.
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It really does society no good at all to equivocate over something like this. If this guy becomes a folk hero then surely it will encourage lots of others with less agreeable views to do similar.
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we have had so many politicians in the West successfully stand on a platform of populism. if you’re going to put people against each other and the “elite” then this is the natural outcome surely. in any other country it would spark debate about healthcare, much in the way that school shootings should spark debate about gun safety. in the US it’s just par the course, nothing to see here, move along
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I think that’s the key point. You and I may agree that the US health system is fucked, but once we say ‘well it’s OK to murder people, then’ that becomes an acceptable justification for other people to do it too ("Yes, I shot that doctor at the abortion clinic, and it’s regrettable that I had to do it, but think of all the unborn children I saved…')
Also, if you treat one side’s criminals more leniently than the other side’s, you get accusations of ‘two-tier justice,’ and that inflames the situation.
During the recent unrest in the States, the US press went to town on how bad the right-wing Capitol rioters were, but those same journalists tied themselves up in knots to describe the violence and destruction of the BLM riots as ‘mostly peaceful.’
The result was growing resentment and, a couple of years later, Trump getting re-elected.
